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Show DECLARES WESTERNERS ARE BASEBALL MAD WIXKESBAHRK, Pa., July 15. "The two great impediments to religion in tha northwest are tha baseball and the money erase, 11 decares Rev. R. W. McCullough, pastor of tbe leading Baptist Bap-tist church here, in a report to his con gregation on a western trip. ' ' The westerners are baseball mad. It is baseball seven days of the week, Bun day and Monday alike. ''In the Dakota the prefer going to a ball game to going to church. They go by train, troljev and automobile, scores of miles. "When they return home they are so full of the feats of the heroes of the diamond tbat they caa think of nothing else." |